Junior School - OCTOBER 3, 2024
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Wednesday, October 9 - Lockdown Drill: If you anticipate your child may need additional support during our upcoming lockdown drill, please contact your child’s homeroom teacher.
This year we have been using Seesaw more often to share what students are learning in all our Junior School classrooms. We hope that you have enjoyed seeing these posts. As part of their homework, some classes have also asked students to add to their Seesaw Learning Journals from home. This can only be done when logged in as the student. If you are logged in as a parent you will need to click on your name in the top left corner of the app (or the website) and sign in as your child. Also, you will need the most recent version of the app (it is purple with a white S on it) to switch between accounts. The old Seesaw Family app is no longer functional. Please reach out to Lara Jensen,Junior School Technology and Integration Co-ordinator, if you need any help with this.
Friday, October 11 - Monday, October 14 - Thanksgiving Long Weekend (No Classes)
Tuesday, October 15 - Gr. 1 Field Trip to Kortright Centre 9:00am - 2:30pm
Wednesday, October 16 - Junior School Open House 10:00am - 12:00pm
Thursday, October 17 - Gr. 3 Field Trip to Crawford Lake
Friday, October 18 - JS Photo Day
Winter Co-Curricular Athletics and Clubs Registration Opens at 9:00am
STUDENT LIFE & BELONGING
HOUSE MEETINGS & CASUAL DAY
Next Thursday, October 8 is a House Colour Casual Day as the Grade 5 Leaders host our 1ST HOUSE MEETINGS. Students are asked to leave their uniforms at home and wear clothing and accessories in their house colours to show their spirit! Party City or Value Village might be great places to source a fun house coloured outfit that can be worn on every house day moving forward.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: HALLOWEEN ACTIVITY STATIONS Thursday, October 31
We have a frightfully fun Halloween planned and need volunteers to run our morning and afternoon activity stations.
There are 3 rotations - (A)(B)(C) - running throughout the day, from 9:30am - 3:15pm. Please share your Halloween availability in this form Halloween @ JS by end of day Monday, October 7.
Everyone who submits the volunteer form will receive an email on Thursday, October 10 - as it's possible that interested volunteers will outnumber available spaces.
PHOTO DAY
Our individual and class photo day has been rescheduled to Friday, October 18. Students should be dressed in the York branded clothing. The green polo or York athletic sweatshirt.
YORK SCARES HUNGER FOOD DRIVE OCTOBER 21 - NOVEMBER 1
WHO: The York School JK-5
WHAT: A food drive collecting canned and nonperishable food items for the Daily Bread Food Bank and/or making a monetary donation to the Children’s Breakfast Clubs Charity which serves 5000 hot meals a week to elementary students in the GTA experiencing food insecurity. This service campaign is also a House Challenge in the Junior School.
WHEN: Starts on Monday, October 21 and ends on Friday, November 1
WHERE: Students are asked to put their food donations for the Daily Bread Food Bank in their coloured house box located in the Gathering Place or make a donation online at Children’s Breakfast Clubs Charity.
WHY: To work together to end hunger in our communities and help our neighbours who need it most!
SAVE THE DATE - HALLOWEEN COSTUME PARADE - Thursday, October 31
Halloween at the Junior School is definitely a highlight of the year for kids and parents alike. Keep your fingers crossed for great weather so that we can bring our entire JS community together!
Join us for our annual Halloween costume parade weather permitting.
Thursday, October 31, parents are invited after drop off from 8:00am -9:30am to the park across the street at Yorkminster Church to enjoy refreshments before the students begin their costume parade.
Students will parade around the perimeter of the park starting at 8:30am and parents are invited to take photos.
We hope you can join us for this spook-tacular event!
Parenting in the Digital Age: Virtual Parent Webinar
Presented by Jake Ernst, Straight Up Health
Today's parents are faced with an unprecedented challenge: to parent and raise their kids in the age of the internet. Many of today’s kids are constantly online and many parents are growing concerned about the impact this is having on kids and their wellbeing. In this session, we’ll talk about the number one factor that impacts whether or not kids get hooked by their device, what apps and websites parents should know about, how to avoid common digital parenting mistakes, and how to strike a balance between digital safety and digital freedom.
Junior School Focus October 8, 7:00pm RSVP HERE
Middle School/Senior School Focus (Students encouraged to attend as well) October 9, 7:00pm RSVP HERE
NEW FULL ZIP BLACK FLEECE
Full Zip Black Fleece - Online Order Only
The online site is now open for orders until October 15, 2024. Orders can be shipped directly to your home or to The York Shop for free. These orders can be picked up between December 16, 2024 to December 18, 2024 from 11:30am - 1:30pm at The York Shop at our 1320 campus.
Click here to order.
If you plan on ordering a black fleece for yourself or your child in the Middle-Senior School, please head over to The Shop (1320 Yonge Street Campus).
The Black Fleece samples are outside The York Shop at the Middle and Senior School. Students can visit the Learning Commons to try them on for size.